2020 picks are very valuable. I think St. Louis won by a tiny bit
They got a 3rd round pick for a goalie that put up a .927 this year. Montreal gave up the pick they got for signing Kovalchuk and trading him a month later. It's a clear W for MTL
Allen was very good last year but you gotta think that MTL could have gotten him for less, or even negative value due to cap circumstances.
If I were a Habs fan, I'd be worried about this. Tying up 15 mil in goaltenders is a poor use of cap (spare me the obvious jokes) and this means they won't be spending money on parts of the roster they need to improve to be a consistant playoff team.
Honestly I think this is a lose-lose trade. MTL paid too much for too little value (backups don't contribute much) and STL lost their better goalie.
They got a 3rd round pick for a goalie that put up a .927 this year. Montreal gave up the pick they got for sign Kovalchuk and trading him a month later. It's a clear W for MTL
yes the Kovalchuk trade is a W. I really like this for St. Louis
They got a 3rd round pick for a goalie that put up a .927 this year. Montreal gave up the pick they got for sign Kovalchuk and trading him a month later. It's a clear W for MTL
Montreal probably wins when you look at it 5 years down the road, but the Blues really needed that cap space to have a chance at resigning their captain. Win-win.
Allen was very good last year but you gotta think that MTL could have gotten him for less, or even negative value due to cap circumstances.
If I were a Habs fan, I'd be worried about this. Tying up 15 mil in goaltenders is a poor use of cap (spare me the obvious jokes) and this means they won't be spending money on parts of the roster they need to improve to be a consistant playoff team.
If you look up his stats from last year, he was St.Louis best goaltender and only has 1 year left on his contract. Montreal still has 14 Million in cap space and only has to pay Domi. We still have space to make other improvements.
Montreal probably wins when you look at it 5 years down the road, but the Blues really needed that cap space to have a chance at resigning their captain. Win-win.
It would make more sense if this actually allowed to Blue to resign Pietrangelo, but they still only have about 6 Million in cap space and still have to resign Dunn.
If you look up his stats from last year, he was St.Louis best goaltender and only has 1 year left on his contract. Montreal still has 14 Million in cap space and only has to pay Domi. We still have space to make other improvements.
I'm aware, I still think you could have gotten him for less, and this does remove your ability to improve the roster elsewhere to an extent. There are plenty of players other teams would have paid you to take that could contribute more than Allen could, and now you have 4 mil less to do so
Never, ever pay for goalies. There is literally no correlation between how much you pay for how much you get, and MTL are paying nearly 20% of the cap in goalies
I'm aware, I still think you could have gotten him for less, and this does remove your ability to improve the roster elsewhere to an extent. There are plenty of players other teams would have paid you to take that could contribute more than Allen could, and now you have 4 mil less to do so
Never, ever pay for goalies. There is literally no correlation between how much you pay for how much you get, and MTL are paying nearly 20% of the cap in goalies
There is no correlation, but there are stats to back up that Allen can actually play the position of goaltending, meaning that Price doesn't have to play 70+ games a year.
It would make more sense if this actually allowed to Blue to resign Pietrangelo, but they still only have about 6 Million in cap space and still have to resign Dunn.
They're not done yet. Steen and/or Bozak will be gone soon
There is no correlation, but there are stats to back up that Allen can actually play the position of goaltending, meaning that Price doesn't have to play 70+ games a year.
Yeah, and you're paying them 15 mil. Do you really not see the problem here? If you don't I never want to hear you **** about the Leafs contracts ever again.
Yeah, and you're paying them 15 mil. Do you really not see the problem here? If you don't I never want to hear you **** about the Leafs contracts ever again.
It doesn't matter about how much we are paying them when we have tons of cap space to make other moves. This doesn't handicap us in the slightest. Leafs are a completely different story.